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Not everyone’s brain works the same way. Read some stuff by Temple Grandin or Oliver Sacks. As for how evolution may have done anything is just a guess until th
by goatlover 7y ago
Not everyone’s brain works the same way. Read some stuff by Temple Grandin or Oliver Sacks. As for how evolution may have done anything is just a guess until there is empirical data backing up that hypothesis. It’s more likely that Chomsky just assumes everyone’s mind worked like his and used that to tell a just so evolutionary story.
- coldtea 7y ago>Not everyone’s brain works the same way. Read some stuff by Temple Grandin or Oliver Sacks Yes, but these study outliers. Most everybody's brain works the same way (or in a few, finite, ways)
- pjc50 7y agoWe assume brains work in the same way, but we lack any kind of tooling for examining this other than fMRI. All this high level stuff like conceptualisation and visualisation relies on subjective self-reporting. I don't think we've even proved whether or not Chomsky's "universal grammar" hypothesis is correct.
- coldtea 7y ago>We assume brains work in the same way, but we lack any kind of tooling for examining this other than fMRI Yes, but it's also kind of a no-brainer. We're the same species, with mostly the same wiring...